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UK price Smash: Wii U, white PS4 deals ahead of the holidays
UK retailers are already gearing up for the holiday season with some console promotions, including GameStop's £300 deal on a glacier white PlayStation 4. The brightly white PS4 was first available as part of the Destiny bundle, but then Sony released it as a standalone a few weeks ago. GameStop's promo offer is a £30 cut off its regular listing, and £50 less than Sony's recommended retail price. Meanwhile, Super Smash Bros Wii U is a few weeks out from its newly bumped-up November 28 release date in Her Maj's kingdom. As Nintendo Life reports, a few British retailers are taking the opportunity to bundle the brawler with the 8GB Basic Wii U, which Nintendo's been trying to phase out instead of the 32GB model. Those retailers include ShopTo, which has the white Wii U, Super Smash Bros. and New Super Mario Bros U going for £190.
UK retailer price cuts: Wii U Premium for £180, Xbox One £410
Amazon UK and Argos both dropped the Wii U Premium to £180 this week, and if that's a familiar-sounding figure it's because it matches the launch price of the Wii. Both retailers have the 32GB Wii U model, complete with Nintendo Land, priced £120 less than the £300 Nintendo itself is asking for, and what most retailers sold the Wii U Premium for at launch. Nintendo UK has several Premium SKUs at £250, including the better value New Super Mario U bundle, and Amazon and Argos more or less price match those bundles. There's been no official word, but perhaps these cuts indicate that Nintendo UK wants to phase out the Nintendo Land bundle, just as Nintendo of America did last year. In contrast, Zavvi taking £20 off the Xbox One is a fresher development for Microsoft's console. Europe's Day One editions of the Xbox One came with free copies of FIFA 14 or Forza 5, so it's arguable £410 better reflects Zavvi's game-less bundle. In any case, other retailers aren't following suit at this stage, so we're not sure what to make of it yet. The Xbox One enjoyed a strong start at retail, racking up 3 million worldwide sales before the close of 2013. The Wii U reached 3 million shipped in a similar time frame, but that early success dried up in 2013, and Nintendo slashed the console's fiscal year forecasts recently from 9 million to 2.8 million - if that figure proves accurate, Nintendo will have shipped 6.2 million units by March 2014.
Xbox One pre-orders, info lists live via Game, Amazon, Microsoft Store
We don't know when it's coming out, but the Xbox One is available for pre-order at European retailers Game and Zavvi. It's also up for "pre-order notifications" on Amazon, the Microsoft Store, GameStop and Best Buy. Best Buy's ad lists the Xbox One with a "holiday 2013" release window, though all we know officially is that it's coming "later this year." Game lists a pre-order holding price of £20 for the Xbox One, while Zavvi's pre-order down payment is £400. Zavvi also has a lineup of Xbox One games for £50, including Call of Duty: Ghosts and four EA Sports games.
Metal Gear Solid 4 '25th Anniversary Edition' found on European retailers
A '25th Anniversary Edition' of Metal Gear Solid 4 has appeared on European retailers Zavvi and ShopTo. Both retailers give the re-release a November 30 release date, but they differ wildly on their prices. ShopTo has pre-orders for £15.85, discounted from an apparent MSRP of £19.99, while Zavvi asks £37.45. We didn't even realize it was the 25th anniversary of Metal Gear Solid 4! Oh ... right. It's a re-release honoring the 25th anniversary of Metal Gear. Neither retailer detailed the additions, but MGS4 has since been updated with Trophies and full installation, which would naturally be on the new disc.
Report: UK retailers list Assassin's Creed 3 and 'Ghost Recon: Final Mission' for Vita
GameSpot reports that UK retailer Play.com posted a listing for an unannounced Vita game called Ghost Recon: Final Mission, which has since been removed.Concurrently, retailer Zavvi posted a listing for a Vita version of Assassin's Creed 3 – Ubisoft announced an Assassin's Creed game being in the works for Vita last August, alongside games like Dungeon Hunter, Lumines, and Rayman Origins that have all since been released. The Zavvi listing remains active.We'll check with Ubisoft; however, for an actual status update about these games, we're sure we'll need only to wait for E3.
AC: Revelations' 'Lost Archive' DLC dives into the life of Subject 16
You remember that weird dude in Assassin's Creed: Revelations' Animus hub world? The one with all the ridiculous existential questions, who had clearly lost his mind many moons before Desmond's arrival? Apparently that dude is the focus of the next DLC pack for AC: R, The Lost Archive, as a retailer-leaked video reveals.The game's listing on Zavvi reportedly had the above video before it was pulled, though the retail site still lists some details about the third DLC pack's contents. Beyond the campaign stuff you'll be running through as Subject 16, the Lost Archive DLC comes with three character skins, Ezio's Turkish-flavored assassins armor, a fancy robe from Altair, and Brutus' armor.It looks like the Lost Archive may aim to link Revelations to the barely detailed next Assassin's Creed franchise entry, but we can't be sure just yet. We've asked Ubisoft for more details and will update this post if we hear more. The Lost Archive DLC launches on February 28 for $15 on Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network.
